From: "Matt Jezorek" <matt@bluelinux.org> To: <editor@lwn.net> Subject: Blue Linux moves focus onto Linux in Education Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:28:02 -0500 Cc: <bluelinux-education@lists.sourceforge.net>, <editors@newsforge.com>, <editor@linux.com> Blue Linux moves focus onto Linux in Education December 12, 2001 - Blue Linux a Linux Distribution announced today that it has shifted focus from the security sense to the Education sense. Based on customer response to the BlueEDU announcement and the lack of response to the secure server system we have decided to shift fully to the Educational Operating system. Blue Linux felt that there was too much replication in the current Open Source work and Blue Linux was only replicating the work of other systems. Currently there are many other secure Linux distributions on the market but yet Linux seems to be lacking a full Educational distribution. Other secure Linux distributions include: a.. Astaro Security http://www.astaro.com/products/index.html b.. Castle http://castle.altlinux.ru/ c.. Engarde http://www.engardelinux.org/ d.. NSA Secure Linux http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ There are many others included in this category. Blue Linux will fork out the Blue Security Daemon (automatic patching utility) into an open source project in the near future so that it can be used across any distribution or user that chooses to use this application. BlueEDU is a project to bring a Linux Operating system to schools. Our initial Focus will be on producing something for the children to play educational games on, run educational software, word process, and to learn the GUI interface of a computer in general. BlueEDU will also include facilities to made to make the process of changing from other Operating Systems to Linux easier For more information visit http://bluelinux.org/ , Members of the press or anyone who would like more information regarding this project are encouraged to contact: --- Matt Jezorek <matt@bluelinux.org> Blue Linux <http://bluelinux.org/> Lead Developer / Project Admin / Founder gpg fingerprint = 99C9 E059 13AF 751D 2BE4 4E10 601B DD7F D68A 2FB6